![]() ![]() With the assistance of producer John Coxon, they fleshed out the guitars and vocals of one standout track, 'Missing', with dance beats. “We had some success with the remix that Bristol Baseline had done of ‘Take Me’, which was an underground white label of a track on ‘The Language Of Life’, and I really liked it and wanted to go down that route on this record,” says Ben Watt. As the duo tell DJ Mag over Zoom, they started to get interested in adding beats and samples to their music as early as 1990, and decided to incorporate more electronics into their 1994 ‘Amplified Heart’ album. ‘Missing’, though, was always intended as a dance-influenced track, even before any remixes of it were made. ![]() ![]() Suddenly, Everything But The Girl’s career took off on an unexpected electronic tangent. New York house legend Terry took Thorn’s heartfelt vocals and effecting lyrics, and Watt’s evocative melodies, and draped them over an irresistible NYC rhythm track powered by driving chord riffs, effervescent bass and melancholic strings, crafting a version that resonated with a wide audience. Suddenly, the duo (today a married couple) were thrust into the international limelight, with a track that morphed from underground club sensation into a No.3 hit in the UK charts and No.2 in the US. Then Todd Terry’s remix of ‘Missing’ elevated them to a different level of fame. ![]() They’d been through turbulent years, with Watt suffering and finally recovering from a rare auto-immune condition, Churg-Strauss syndrome, that nearly ended his life. We were a bit like, heads spinning for a while, what the fuck? We wanted to come back, but we didn’t imagine it would be this.”īy 1994, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt had released seven albums as Everything But The Girl, with records like the jazz-influenced ‘Eden’ and the poignant pop of ‘Idlewild’ already affirmed classics. Then suddenly we’ve got the biggest hit of our entire career. Don’t forget, we were at a stage in our lives where this wasn’t our first record, we’d already been around for quite a long time, we were already in our thirties. “We were going out to do appearances in Italy and stuff, on massive stages, often miming along to it. “Once ‘Missing’ became a club hit, Warner re-released it, so then it became a full-blown pop hit,” says Everything But The Girl’s Tracey Thorn, reminiscing on the runaway success of their evergreen song. ![]()
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